"Certain Quarters"
Blamed for Kidnapping Tientsin, May 23.
Local Chinese circles were considerably stirred yesterday when the news became known that two employees of the Native Goods Store on Pei Ma Lu in the Native City were illegally carried off by the nationals of a "certain country" on Thursday hight, May 21. The two salesmen ere Chao Ao-lou and Lu Chun-chieh.
The incident was learned to have occurred owing to the objections by "certain quarters" that one kind of shirts sold in the store bears the Trade-mark of a girl holding The "certain quarters," it was learned, considered the idea as re~ presenting the "resistance against the Rising Sun," and therefore anti-
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